South Africans have reason to be apprehensive over the resignation of Bulelani Ngcuka as the national director of prosecutions.
Focus 35 - 3rd Quarter 2004
Patrick Laurence combines an audit of liberalism with a tribute to Peter Brown, one of its finest exponents.
Alan Hirsch provides a synopsis of and insights into government’s campaign to reduce poverty.
Joubert Botha offers a different view on how to tackle poverty, including a reappraisal of the Tomlinson Commission Report.
Raymond Louw argues that foreign policy should be consistent with human-rights tenets enshrined in the constitution.
Lawrence Schlemmer reflects on parental and communal attitudes to education in post-apartheid South Africa.
Luis Clemens tests Zanu-PF propaganda about bumper crops and finds it wanting.
David Welsh, a long-time abolitionist, elucidates on why he still opposes the restoration of the death penalty.
Lawrence Schlemmer argues that the NNP leadership’s opportunism has adverse implications for democracy.